Stoan

I'm in the same boat. I cut about half my add-ons this year already. I'm interested to see how things go to make my choices about next year, not to mention it'll probably be when the Six Flags merge changes start popping up. I won't say it's a bad start though, preview night in my opinion is more for Employees than Passholders. They leverage the fact we aren't really paying to do a stress test of the park, and it was BUSY. Yet compared to most years surprisingly not terrible. 3.8 röntgen. June will be my measurable month.

No more paper passes for fast pass, scan your actual pass at the GateKeeper

Coney BBQ half chicken is the smallest chicken I've ever seen

What a joke

Oh crap boys, there is a soda fountain in the VIP shack

I like collectible cards, I'm not going to get any of these packs. Unless they sell them in the stores I'm going to miss out entirely.

Many times I took a burrito or 3 way into the VIP shack to eat. Occasionally a backpack with a few snacks. Never a big picnic though.

I mean, why make it the whole day. It isn't like the park on these days is ever absurdly busy, everything works perfectly and everyone has been training for months on how to handle the small patient crowds of polite guests. 5 hours should be plenty for everyone to get in, enjoy the park and leave. Not like this day is marketed as an "exclusive" event to fans who continuously guarantee a certain amount of money for the park every year. I mean if the Preview Night was to have any of those problems it would almost need to be renamed into "Take time to figure out what we forgot to set up before REAL people show up" Night

I mean, surely they wouldn't sell us the idea of unlimited coffee and ICEEs then remove them from 90% of the park so nobody actually uses them... right?

I had forgotten the name of this ride so many times my family has gotten used to calling it "the yellow ride", it'll be years before I get used to calling it "the green one"

I think the only thing that could have disappointed me more than an adult only beverage place opening up in this location would be if they just put Subway back.

To piggy back off this discussion a bit. My youngest is turning 8 this year, she'll be real closer to the 52 inch rider. She's decided she wants to take a trip to Holiday World for her birthday which is right around the season opener traditionally for them. I was going to make a full day of it, getting in on Friday and going home Sunday. Do I need a two day pass, or can I reasonably finish the dry park in one day?

When I first saw the headline I panicked thinking Six Flags was already taking over names. Glad to hear they at least stuck with Peanuts themed, and just made it more "camp" styled. I wouldn't be opposed to redoing the entire section into a foresty/campground theme for kids.

Like I sort of alluded to in my post, I'm in the same-ish boat. I will probably still keep going, but I can see myself dropping all the way back to just plain gold passes with no bonuses except season funpix (still the best deal in the park), and possibly even cutting out passes for the whole family, and instead keeping one for the daughter I have that loves the park and me only.

I mean, I don't go to Kings Island for the music, but I enjoy hearing it while I am there. I got stuff to do, but I might walk a bit more slowly through the area or pause for a minute to enjoy hearing the sounds before needing to move on.